SYLVIA BLYDEN SAKED - 23/11/17
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‼‼ *SYLVIA BLYDEN CAUTIONS APC, ERNEST KOROMA*
The sacked Minister of Government Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden has cautioned her former boss, His Excellency the President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, to tred cautiously in the weeks and months ahead. According to her, she is not concerned over being relieved of her duties as Minister as she knows none of what has been thrown at her, can ever stick. She however cautioned that the fact that His Excellency the President could openly side with corrupt persons against her own steadfastness in curbing corruption, should be a cause for concern to all who campaigned and voted for the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) exactly five years ago in 2012.
It is a fact that Minister Blyden has stood very firm to protect Government funds and has turned to the Anti Corruption Commission with cogent facts several times now. Those complaints, some of which like the AFCOM Case, have spanned over 15 months being investigated, all had documented evidence submitted. This also included the recent Hajj corruption in which $314,000 was stolen from the Ministry. That one is also under investigation. So many other cases with evidence, some of which were never even publicised, have made many advisers of the President to be jittery.
They advised that Blyden should be removed from office. But how does one remove a popular Minister? That is always a dilemma.
According to widespread belief that is buttressed by documents which this press has seen, the chance came up when the Minister recently defied directives of her boss. The President had asked his now-sacked minister, Dr. Blyden, through the Secretary to President, to turn a blind eye and sign the PETS FORMS to endorse release of money for the Disability Commission to access funds despite glaring evidence of corrupt heartlessness towards vulnerable Disables in proposed use of the funds. Despite documentary evidence such as 200 million leones was planned to be used to pay as rent for a run-down bungalow which was not worth that amount.
In response, the sacked Minister stated in a letter she wrote to President Koroma dated *November 2nd 2017*, that she instead prefers to be sacked by him than betray her conscience and the Oath she took.
President Koroma however realised that the female Cabinet Minister was so popular that if he sacked her over her stance, it may be difficult to defend the sack.
The matter was then cleverly transferred from State House to Parliament with the MPs given the impression that Dr. Blyden was being unreasonable in her refusals to sign. Indeed, on the day she first appeared in Parliament, she initially met a very hostile environment with many of the MPs prepared to guillotine her but with calm eloquence, the Minister was able to make her case so well that even the most hard-hearted person in that Parliament was left with no option but to be convinced that her decision was correct and in the interest of vulnerable Disable citizens.
The next move to embarrass her and create a platform to sack her, was at the Budget hearing for her ministry. Persons unknown had told the staff to submit a mumbo jumbo document to MPs that would naturally get the MPs asking embarrassing questions. Once again, divine intervention stepped in and those who went to embarrass the Minister got thrown out by MPs who knew the diligence of the Minister.
When they appeared again, this time persons unknown got the Accountant who also tried to embarrass the Minister but again, the Almighty stepped in and guided the Minister to speedily swear an affidavit under Oath with the facts of why she had insisted on the Truth to be reported to Parliament. *The elected MPs speedily approved the budget.* 😃
It was now a time of desperation for her detractors. Dr. Blyden needed to be sacked as she was a stumbling block but an excuse was needed. So, heads came together to help the Head of State pull all possible stops to remove the popular Minister.
So it was that the deputy minister suddenly starts to threaten she has evidence of "Corruption" and she goes on radio. Nothing she could say on that radio yesterday morning of November 23rd 2017, made much sense. The deputy minister was just screaming like a banshee. It took eloquence of the Minister to save the day when the radio called her for her own side. Clearly, the stage managed radio programme was done to incite the Minister to serious anger. The Minister once again exhibited calmness and maturity that won her so many more admirers yesterday.
The President however now believed he could relieve the Minister safely and his media team seems to have assured him that they will spend enough money and time to effectively demonize the Minister as being sacked because she went over the radio to defend herself and the government of stupid allegations. Indeed, all over social media last night, ruling APC party operatives and State House staff were busy posting scathing pieces to attack the sacked Minister that she was sacked because when she was called by the radio on the nonsensical allegations, she defended herself.
‼ *But Dr. Blyden is having none of that.*
"Nobody who listened to that radio programme can fault my response when I was called to defend whether 6 billion leones was indeed missing at the Ministry" Blyden explained.
"Sending Neneh to make those outlandish claims and then relieving me of my duties is a game plan but I am assuring them again that I am a Teflon Politician who will surprise my detractors" she boasted, adding "the plans to rub dirt on me did not work and will never work but I want to caution His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma and my beloved APC party to be very cautious in how they condone corruption whilst our vulnerable people suffer so much. It is unfair. Let us not take Sierra Leoneans for granted."
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PRESS RELEASE FROM STATE HOUSE
THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT DR. ERNEST BAI KOROMA HAS DECIDED TO RELIEVE DR. SYLVIA OLAYINKA BLYDEN AND MRS. RUGIATU NENEH KOROMA OF THEIR DUTIES AS MINISTER AND DEPUTY MINISTER RESPECTIVELY IN THE MINISTRY OF SOCIAL WELFARE, GENDER AND CHILDREN’S AFFAIRS.
IN CONSEQUENCE THEREOF, IT HAS PLEASED HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT TO ASSIGN MS. ISATA KABIA AS MINISTER OF SOCIAL WELFARE, GENDER AND CHILDREN’S AFFAIRS WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT.
END
STATE HOUSE
FREETOWN 23RD NOVEMBER, 2017
*Radio 98.1 and their headline of SIX BILLION "MISSING" AT SOCIAL WELFARE MINISTRY - Thank God for Sylvia Olayinka Blyden.*
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Had it not been for the astute and proactive nature of the Honourable Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs Dr. Sylvia Blyden, the 98.1 Radio Station would have gotten away this morning of Thursday November 23rd 2017, with a terrible act of unprofessionalism. It had been arranged by the radio to get Neneh Turay, the misguided Deputy Minister of that ministry to go live on air alongside the SLPP Leader and Chairman Prince Harding to state that SIX BILLION LEONES got missing during last year 2016 at Social Welfare Ministry.
It would have been a sensational material for the SLPP's Dr. Prince Harding had it not been for the speedy and very admirable intervention of Hon. Sylvia Blyden who maturely debunked the radio's alarmist lead headline of *SIX BILLION LEONES MISSING!*
Hon. Blyden skillfully via a matured and euphemistic exposure of the educational inadequacies of her assigned Deputy Minister seated inside 98.1 Radio Station, ensured that the only thing the SLPP's Prince Harding could end up using against the APC was not evidence of Ministerial CORRUPTION but only to say that President Koroma is unable to run a disciplined government so Deputy Ministers go live on radio to attack the Government Minister.
*This criticism of President Koroma is quite true though.* How can your Deputy Minister get up and just go live on air making such unproven allegations?
Worse of all, it appears to be a totally unprovoked tirade as nothing the Deputy Minister said could explain why she went to attack her boss so viciously. So something fishy smells here. We repeat that something smells very fishy. Who wants to remove the Minister from that seat? Who? Who? Who?
Who stage-managed this morning's show? Who? Who? Who?
The coincidence of producer Asma James disappearing this morning and leaving unprofessional younger folks to handle that kind of SIX BILLION MISSING headline with SLPP Prince Harding seated right there, is interesting. Pray God for long life so you can see the wickedness of politics. We will live to see more!
It is not the first time that same deputy minister Neneh Turay is doing so. Using the same 98.1 Radio Station in January this year, she attacked Abu Daramy of the Office of the Government Spokesman as a liar because he was defending Government over the sacrificial meat issue. Again it was the same Minister, Honourable Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden who saved the day when she called into the 98.1 radio station and maturely put the records straight on the sacrificial meat issue. Immediately the mischief of Neneh Turay that time in January, was also killed by proactive Minister Blyden.
How long will President Koroma allow this kind of GROSS INDISCIPLINE from Deputy Minister Neneh Turay? Will Dr. Sylvia Blyden always be around to call in and save the day for this government?
Today, SLPP could not use the FM98.1 Radio headlined nonsense of *SIX BILLION LEONES MISSING* because of the proactive skills of Hon. Minister Blyden, a dynamic pride of Mama Salone. Blyden has saved the day today - but what about tomorrow?
Something to think about.
As you ponder your thoughts deeply, please listen to the 10 minutes audio accompanying this update. It is of the same Deputy Minister abruptly calling into that same 98.1 radio station to viciously attack the Abu Daramy of the Office of Government Spokesman as a liar. Continue to listen throughout that audio and see how Hon. Minister Blyden saved the day with maturity - *in the same way she did it this morning* as she did back in January this year.
Will Minister Blyden always be around to save the day? Food for thought.
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23rd November 2017.
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‼️‼️ SYLVIA BLYDEN CAUTIONS APC, ERNEST KOROMA.
The sacked Minister of Government Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden has cautioned her former boss, His Excellency the President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, to tred cautiously in the weeks and months ahead. According to her, she is not concerned over being relieved of her duties as Minister as she knows none of what has been thrown at her, can ever stick. She however cautioned that the fact that His Excellency the President could openly side with corrupt persons against her own steadfastness in curbing corruption, should be a cause for concern to all who campaigned and voted for the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) exactly five years ago in 2012.
It is a fact that Minister Blyden has stood very firm to protect Government funds and has turned to the Anti Corruption Commission with cogent facts several times now. Those complaints, some of which like the AFCOM Case, have spanned over 15 months being investigated, all had documented evidence submitted. This also included the recent Hajj corruption in which $314,000 was stolen from the Ministry. That one is also under investigation. So many other cases with evidence, some of which were never even publicised, have made many advisers of the President to be jittery.
They advised that Blyden should be removed from office. But how does one remove a popular Minister? That is always a dilemma.
According to widespread belief that is buttressed by documents which this press has seen, the chance came up when the Minister recently defied directives of her boss. The President had asked his now-sacked minister, Dr. Blyden, through the Secretary to President, to turn a blind eye and sign the PETS FORMS to endorse release of money for the Disability Commission to access funds despite glaring evidence of corrupt heartlessness towards vulnerable Disables in proposed use of the funds. Despite documentary evidence such as 200 million leones was planned to be used to pay as rent for a run-down bungalow which was not worth that amount.
In response, the sacked Minister stated in a letter she wrote to President Koroma dated *November 2nd 2017*, that she instead prefers to be sacked by him than betray her conscience and the Oath she took.
President Koroma however realised that the female Cabinet Minister was so popular that if he sacked her over her stance, it may be difficult to defend the sack.
The matter was then cleverly transferred from State House to Parliament with the MPs given the impression that Dr. Blyden was being unreasonable in her refusals to sign. Indeed, on the day she first appeared in Parliament, she initially met a very hostile environment with many of the MPs prepared to guillotine her but with calm eloquence, the Minister was able to make her case so well that even the most hard-hearted person in that Parliament was left with no option but to be convinced that her decision was correct and in the interest of vulnerable Disable citizens.
The next move to embarrass her and create a platform to sack her, was at the Budget hearing for her ministry. Persons unknown had told the staff to submit a mumbo jumbo document to MPs that would naturally get the MPs asking embarrassing questions. Once again, divine intervention stepped in and those who went to embarrass the Minister got thrown out by MPs who knew the diligence of the Minister.
When they appeared again, this time persons unknown got the Accountant who also tried to embarrass the Minister but again, the Almighty stepped in and guided the Minister to speedily swear an affidavit under Oath with the facts of why she had insisted on the Truth to be reported to Parliament. The elected MPs speedily approved the budget.
It was now a time of desperation for her detractors. Dr. Blyden needed to be sacked as she was a stumbling block but an excuse was needed. So, heads came together to help the Head of State pull all possible stops to remove the popular Minister.
So it was that the deputy minister suddenly starts to threaten she has evidence of "Corruption" and she goes on radio. Nothing she could say on that radio yesterday morning of November 23rd 2017, made much sense. The deputy minister was just screaming like a banshee. It took eloquence of the Minister to save the day when the radio called her for her own side. Clearly, the stage managed radio programme was done to incite the Minister to serious anger. The Minister once again exhibited calmness and maturity that won her so many more admirers yesterday.
The President however now believed he could relieve the Minister safely and his media team seems to have assured him that they will spend enough money and time to effectively demonize the Minister as being sacked because she went over the radio to defend herself and the government of stupid allegations. Indeed, all over social media last night, ruling APC party operatives and State House staff were busy posting scathing pieces to attack the sacked Minister that she was sacked because when she was called by the radio on the nonsensical allegations, she defended herself.
But Dr. Blyden is having none of that.
"Nobody who listened to that radio programme can fault my response when I was called to defend whether 6 billion leones was indeed missing at the Ministry" Blyden explained.
"Sending Neneh to make those outlandish claims and then relieving me of my duties is a game plan but I am assuring them again that I am a Teflon Politician who will surprise my detractors" she boasted, adding "the plans to rub dirt on me did not work and will never work but I want to caution His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma and my beloved APC party to be very
cautious in how they condone corruption whilst our vulnerable people suffer so much. It is unfair. Let us not take Sierra Leoneans for granted."
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I will not betray my conscience (Blyden)or the Oath I took!
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